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Police In Western Australia The guns have been confiscated and canceled with dozens of owners or canceled the suspended firearms, which are associated with investigators, described as sovereign civilian ideologies, or rejecting ideas to the government authority.
Cracks on gun users follow the deadly shooting of two police officers Victoria in August. Suspects in those murders, 56 year old will FreemanLive on a large scale when he said two officers were killed to serve a search warrant to go to their rural property.
In the years before shooting, Freeman appeared near Adopted so -called sovereign citizens ideas While appearing in court.
Members of such movements use the legal principles debuted to reject the government authority.
Gun owners canceled their views
Framen is suspected of injuring Detective Senior Constable Neil Thompson and Senior Constable Wadim de Wart-Hotart and a third officer. After shooting, in investigators Western Australia In 2024, he used gun laws used to identify arms owners in his state, who said that he had similar views as Freeman.
“The mission of this operation was simple, and it was to validate and verify our intelligence, which can organize sovereign civic ideologies here Western Australia“State Police Commissioner Colonel Blanches said.
Social media posts and information from other gun owners were used to identify target people.
Officials visited 70 properties in late September and early five days in five days, seized 135 firearms and suspended 44 gun licenses, said by Blanches.
Investigators trusted a legal provision that only allows someone who meets the standard of “fit and appropriate person” to conduct a gun permit.
“If you have made it clear that you do not follow the rules of Western Australia set by Parliament, there is no way that you can be a fit and appropriate person,” Blancch said.
Raids were conducted by shooting of six officers
Explaining the raid, Blancch said that in the last three years, six police officers in four states have been shot by public members, which he said that was “unprecedented” in Australia.
In 2022, two officers were shot dead by Christian extremists in a rural property. Queensland State. In that case, three shooter-criminals who allegedly hated the police-were shot dead by officials after a six-hour siege in the area of Wieambilla.
In 2023, a South Australian police officer was shot dead. Another was killed in Tasmania in June.
The shooting of death in Australia is otherwise rare. A 1996 genocide in Port Arthur’s Tasmanian city, where a lone gunman killed 35 people, motivated the government to tighten gun laws and made it more difficult for Australians to acquire firearms.
When the tight gun laws of Western Australia were implemented in the last June, the state government claimed that they were the strongest in the country. For most people someone is involved in changes that limit the number of guns up to 10.
Six weeks later, the Victoria Police Search for the killer
Meanwhile, in rural VictoriaAustralia’s largest strategic police operation continues to search for Freeman. Hundreds of officials have detected the rugged landscape, squeezed into the caves and so far checked the mines with no confirmation of fugitives.
The murders of August 26 occurred when 10 armed police officers tried to execute a search warrant on the property of the Freeman in Porpankah, which is a city of more than 1,000 people in the city’s 320 km (200 mi). Melbourne,
Suspicious, Freeman, run alone, walking and heavy armed, densely surrounding forest. Officials said that he is experienced in the skills of the existence of the forest.
VictoriaPolice Commissioner Mike Bush did not give the reason for the discovery of Freeman’s property at that time, but he told reporters that the participating officers included members of a unit who investigate sexual offenses and child abuse.
Australian news outlets widely stated that Freeman spied sovereign civic beliefs, which cited a video of 2021 in the Wangratta Magistrate’s court and published online in which he could be seen failing to arrest the magistrate and police officers during a hearing.
Search from Victoria in 2024 Supreme CourtWhile Freeman tried to challenge a long suspension of his driver’s license, a judge wrote that the man had “a history of unpleasant encounters with police officers”, which he referred to in his submission in court as “Nazis” and “terrorist thugs”.